We believe everyday Wyomingites should have a say in the decisions that shape our lives.
Through civic education, leadership development and collective action, we coach folks on how to speak up, get involved, and work together to improve our communities.
It’s up to us to build a better Wyoming.
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The Grassroots Institute
2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local lawmakers voted during the legislative session on important issues like healthcare, education, and taxes to find out.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact us all.
What We’re Up To
Better Wyoming Fights Irresponsible Tax Cuts
Better Wyoming showed up recently at the Revenue Committee’s meeting to tell legislators – and the Wyoming public – just how bad things would be for hardworking Wyomingites if these irresponsible cuts go through.
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Wyoming Says NO to Book Bans
Hundreds of people flooded lawmakers with emails and gave public testimony in resistance to a bill that aims to ban books and penalize libraries. The fight isn’t over, but together we’ve shown the legislature that Wyoming won’t accept censorship.
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Better Wyoming Leads the Charge for our Public Lands
For the first time in half a century the Wyoming Legislature, under Freedom Caucus leadership, failed their constitutional duty to pass a state budget. These are just some of the programs and agencies that will go unfunded as a result.
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DERAILED: Everything you need to vote smart in the 2022 Wyoming primaries (Part 4)
Our “DERAILED” series explained why you should vote in the 2022 Wyoming primary elections. Now we tell you how. Find your new voting districts, polling place, and learn how to research your candidates to cast a smart ballot this August.
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DERAILED: Special interest groups count on low turnout to influence Wyo. primaries (Part 3)
Many groups with narrow agendas target the primary elections in order to flip seats in the Wyoming Legislature, and they depend on low turnout to succeed.
The more Wyomingites vote in the elections that count, the less influence special interest groups will have over our state.
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DERAILED: No matter what you learned in school, Wyoming Election Day is not in November (part 2)
Despite what we learn in school, Wyoming’s real Election Day is in August.
All six races for statewide and Congressional seats in 2022 will be decided by then, along with all but a handful of Legislative and county-level contests.
If you’re waiting until November to cast a ballot, you’re missing the chance to make your vote count.
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